POV: A disbeliever who believes
Did God create man?
1. The Origin of the Divine Idea
We all have heard about the story of why people started believing in many gods. Since they didn’t fully understand how everything happened, they created the idea of supernatural forces that controled everything. But how did the concept of one single omnipotent God was born? I have no clue. There are ancient religions that believed in that, and maybe people connecting with one God more created worshiping directed in only one of them and through time the others dissapeared. But today I am going to elaborate on some of the most important questions that people ask, starting with:
2. Why Do We Suffer, If God Exists?
Why though? If God created us perfect(as all monotheist religions quote), why is there so many injustice and why does the flesh and heart know pain?
WarโฆmurderโฆPainโฆDeathโฆAnd God? Silence. No word from himโฆNot a sign for the soulโฆor not?
Well let’s get back to the age old story of Adam and Eve, two perfect beings created by mud, and prohibited them only one thing in the entire Paradise. What did they do? They disobeyed. From all the things they could do, they did the one thing they shouldn’t. They were tempted, couldn’t blame them tbh if I was the first human created and didn’t know anything probably I would act the same.
But they were punished. “You were created by mud and into mud you shall return”, and he gave Eve the pain of birth. Now think about it I get mad if my cat does the oposite of what I say imagine a creation like that. Even though not sure it was angerโฆsince he is all knowing why would he let them do that? Orโฆdid He know?
So let’s get back to the original question, why do we suffer? Is it a test? A punishment? But I wasn’t the one that ate the apple why should I be the one suffering? True that couldn’t blame you. But if you didn’t know sufferance, would you know God? Would there be a reason for you to beg for his mercy? To obey him? To repent for any minor or major sin? How would he know who he should trust?
Before you say anything, ruling by love or by fear is another topic to discuss in another moment, for now, let’s stick to loyalty.
Up until now we answered the question why do we suffer, and the answer is to get away from sin and get closer to God. Those who know God and/ or fear him are the ones that rarely hurt others and not by fear of God, but by the shape of their own God soul. They suffer more the thought that they did something not that God will punish them. As for the others, those who fear God, well at least they don’t do any harm out of fear right?
3. Does Prayer Actually Work?
You may believe in energy, manifestation, law of attraction or something else you believe in and claim to understand, but it’s quite the same thing in different names.
But when you are uncapable of doing something, when something is out of your hands, and it’s not that easy to manifest, what would you do?
In prayer, you somehow stop feeling guilty about not doing something you can’t, about changing the fate, but also you leave it in the hands of a greater power, a Heavinly Father, and by doing so you don’t just relax, but if it’s possible you do what maybe you call “manifesting”.
Sometimes in prayer you find a friend, someone to talk to, a way to ease your pain, cause you know that in every tear, in every ache, he is there, he knows, and if He should he will wipe it away and make you smile again.
4. Believers vs Non-Believers โ Does God Care?
Does faith affect our worth in God’s eyes? Maybe yes, maybe no. WHen someone you love or respect calls you and asks you a favor or says he is in trouble and asks help from you what do you do? Personally, I would move heavens and earth to help them. But if they don’t ask help? The idea of someone being in trouble and me doing something to change that for the better would make me offer my help, but I wouldn’t say that’s always the case.
What about good people who don’t believe? There are bad people who believe and there are good people who don’t believe. Does this mean the bad people would be rewarded and the good people won’t? I dont think so. God is all knowing, he knows what’s in the heart of each. Sure they will be tested to, but even if they do the right thing without being tempted they are rewarded, in one way or another.
5. If God Is All-Knowing, Why Allow Evil?
Free will, divine plans, and moral chaos.
God is all knowing and merciful, that means that he doesn’t create pure evil, he does punish it, but in the mean time, that becomes part of the test. Like we talked above for the temptation, we are in the topic most contraversial of all, free will.
Since Eve and Adam chose to eat the apple, this means that free will exists.
We don’t know the reason he created us for, we cannot know his plan. But what makes more sense to me is the fact that he knows everything that will happen and most importantly, everything that might happen. So he wrote about the end of the world and Judgement Day and who knows what else, but does he know what every single one of us will do?
He created us, created the demons and the angels also, so he knows every variation and where it would lead. In other words, if you are given 2 choices or more, you decide which one to take, but the destination will be the same, the only one that differs is the path and how you grow along the way.
6. Conclusion: Seeking Meaning in a Complicated Universe
Whether God made us or we made God, what does it say about us?
I don’t know whether God created us or we created God, but in both cases we are perfect beings in need for guidance.
In the end, the important thing is that we never stop questioning, cause maybe, just maybe, in the light of a falling star we can find an answer.
